Unicorn School song

In 1970, when Unicorn School began, Mrs Felicia Law, the founding Headmistress, asked a parent, Bert Chappell, to compose a school song using this poem written by E V Rieu in 1962. We always sing the Unicorn song at the end of term assembly:

The Unicorn stood, like a king in a dream,On the bank of a dark Senegambian stream;And flaming flamingoes flew over his head,As the African sun rose in purple and red.

He followed the paths where the jungle beasts go,And he walked with a step that was stately and slow;But he threw not a shadow and made not a sound,And his foot was as light as the wind on the ground.

Who knows what the thoughts of a Unicorn areWhen he shines on the world like a rising star;When he comes from the magical pages of storyIn the pride of his horn and a halo of glory?

“What a wonderful world!’ He was heard to exclaim;“It is better than books: it is sweeter than fame!“Oh, speak to me, dark Senegambian stream,And prove that my beauty is more than a dream!”